The history and statutes of the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh.

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Date:
1749
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Credit: The history and statutes of the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | ee at ae _reft of the Houfe are “iy 24 Feet wide. In this Building there are three Stairs, a large one in the Middle, and a {maller one in each Ying, where it is joined to the Body. Contiguous to the large Stair Cafe are a Lobby, Managers Hall, Treafurer and Clerk’s Offices, (which ferve alfo for keeping the Books, and for confulting Roomand Surgery ) and a large Theatre, where more than 200 Students can fee Operations, and which is alfo a convenient Chapel. Over the The- atre a Cupola is raifed, that may be fome- times employed as an .4/fronomical Ob- fervatory.—In the Ground Floor, there are 12 Cells for mad People, two Kzt- chens,; Laidner, Pauntry, Apothecary’s Shop and Warehoufe, and Rooms for the Matron, Clerk, Apothecary, Parter awd other Servants. In the other Parts of the Houfe 228 fick People can be re- ceived into feparate Beds, with a {mall Clofet to each; 58 of thefe Beds are in as many clofe warm Rooms. The | , Garrets could admit about 60 Beds more; ' but having rather lefs Air, than is fit for fuch a Number of People, they, and the Cellars under the Wings, are made Repo- : fitories